Baykal: Politicians can't guarantee our contitutional systemmm

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal yesterday criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for recently calling himself the "guarantee" of Turkey's secularism. "By no means can politicians be the guarantee of the constitutional system in a country," Baykal told news channel NTV. "Politicians come and go. The law, our institutions, the Constitutional Court, and the Constitution itself are the guarantee." In related news, Constitutional Court Chief Justice Hasim Kilic paid a courtesy visit to Baykal at CHP headquarters.